One day a monk paid a visit to Tinh Khong (1091-1170), a Vietnamese Zen master, who was of the tenth generation of Vo Ngon Thong lineage, and asked:
-From old days it was talked about "direct pointing", what does that mean?
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As Alan Watts would say, most of us have been heading North all our lives. What would happen if we decided to go South, East or West instead? I think it would be much the same thing, conflict and suffering, just in a different direction. Then he asks what would happen if we just stopped. ………. I used to think I was on a path. Then I realised I was the path. So my journey came to an end right there.